Improvement in cooking-stoves



J. MAGEE.

Cooking Stove.

Patented April I5, 1862.

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JOHN MAGEE, OF CHELSEA, ASSIGNOR TO TIIE NORTON FURNAOE COMPANY, OFNORTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,000, dated .April15, 1862.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN MAGEE, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk and Stateof Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement inCooking-Stoves; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully describedin the following specification, and represented in the accompanyingdrawings, of which- Figure l is a front elevation showing theash-chamber doors as open; Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 atransverse section,of a stovehaving my invention,the plane of section ofthe last-named figure being through the ash-receiver, to be hereinafterdescribed.

The nature of my invention consists in a peculiar arrangement of theash-chamber and the oven-chute with reference to the hearth, the grate,and the oven, the ash-chamber being constructed with an opening providedwith one or more doors, and so arranged as to enable the box or drawerto be removed from the ash-chamber as circumstances may require.

In the drawings, A denotes the oven as made with an inclined plate orchute b, arranged wholly underneath the grate I3 of the fire-place C,and made to lead into an ashchamber E or a drawer or box D, placedwithin the said ash-chamber E and extending nearly from end to end ofit. The ashchamber E extends partly underneath the grate and partlyunderneath the hearth II, and-is open at its front, or is there providedwith an opening large enough to receive the ash box or drawer l) orallow it to be either introduced into or withdrawn from the chamber E,the said opening being furnished with two doors G G, by which it may beclosed after the ash-box D may have been put in place within the chamberE. The chute b serves not only to absorb heat from the fuel in the grateand direct such heat into the oven, but to facilitate the escape ofashes which may fall from the grate and would be likely to be depositedon the oven were the top plate of its portion extending under the gratemade horizontal. Furthermore, the chute directs the ashes into theash-chamber or its drawer. underneath the grate, when the latterishorizontal, or about so, said chute constitutes no part of the boundaryor surfaces of the fuelchamber, and consequently the fuel while incombustion cannot rest directly against the chute, so as to heat it toredness and thereby serve to greatly injure it. Furthermore, thearrangement of the chute with respect tothe oven, the grate, and theash-pit, and the arrangement of the latter so as to project bothunderneath the ash-pit and the hearth, as shown in the drawings, isspecially advantageous, for it enables the oven not only to be enlargedby being extended underneath the grate while the latter is horizontal-and protects the oven against ashes collecting against its front, butit disposes of the ashchamber to properly receive the ashes without anydanger of their falling on the hearth.

I do not claim the arrangement of an oven, inclinedchute, grate,ash-chamber, and hearth, as exhibited in the United States Patent No.18,859, my invention being an improvement thereon, by which I avoidsundry difficulties incident to such arrangement.

What I claim is c.

My peculiar arrangement of the ash-chainber and the oven-chute withreference to the hearth, the horizontal grate, and the oven, the saidash-chamber being construct-ed with an opening and such opening beingprovided with one or more doors, all substantially as specified andrepresented.

JOHN MAGEE.

IVitn esses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

By having the chute arranged

